Posts Tagged ‘Church and State’

Was JFK right to uphold an ‘absolute’ separation of Church and state?

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Rick Santorum, the Catholic pro-life GOP presidential candidate, recently provoked a furor when he attacked President John Kennedy, Jr.’s 1960 speech designed to defuse anti-Catholic bigotry by embracing an “absolute” separation between church and state. It was vintage Santorum, underscoring his unique, sometimes frustrating contribution to the national debate on a host of issues, from Read more

Separation of Church and State does not mean silence

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Separation of Church and State is an essential pre-condition for Western style democracies. But it is not total separation, as desired by the secularists. Church members vote and hold high office as citizens. The Churches have a part to play in the ‘public square’. In fact Evangelical Catholics are committed to robust public proclamation of Read more